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- Cairo (12536 bytes)
34: ...urther, including the construction of its massive citadel.
62: ...ant that the [[Egyptian Museum]] in Cairo is the only place in the world that many items can be seen.
72: A second mainline station is located some 10 km south, at Giza.
80: The Cairo Metro is Africa's only fully-fledged [[Metro|metro system]]. Two lines ... - South Carolina (11968 bytes)
44: ...ican Civil War | Civil War]]. Students from [[The Citadel]] were among those firing the first shots of the ... - Castle (27805 bytes)
8: Castles were built not only as a defensive measure, and offensive weapon, bu...
46: ...ayeux Tapestry]], and was then familiar on the mainland of western [[Europe]].
48: ...e 11th century. But in addition to the mound, the citadel of the fortress, there was usually appended to it...
52: ...recisely "tower and castle," the former being the citadel, and the latter the walled enclosure, which prese...
55: ...of which defied the [[battering ram]], and could only be undermined at the cost of much time and labou... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
137: ...lanet)|Jupiter]]. Saturn has large rings made mainly out of ice and space debris. It was named after...
140: ...ith an average specific density of 0.69. This is only an average value, however; Saturn's upper atmosp...
144: ...t Saturn has a warm polar [[vortex]], and is the only planet in the solar system known to do so.
167: ...me gaps are cleared out by the passage of tiny moonlets such as [[Pan (moon)|Pan]], many more of which...
176: | [[Image:Saturn unlit rings.jpg|thumb|center|200px|''[[Cassini-Huygen... - Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
3: ... His father was Niccolo Ariosto, commander of the citadel of Reggio. He followed a strong inclination to po...
6: ... of the character of a patron of literature. The only reward he gave the poet for ''Orlando Furioso'',...
12: On account of the war, his salary of only 84 crowns a year was suspended, and it was withd... - Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
23: Messages often were encoded so that only those active in the Railroad would fully underst...
33: ...within the constellation [[Ursa Major]] that commonly was called then, as it is today, the "Big Dipper...
73: ... Of the 20,000 who emigrated to [[Upper Canada]] only 20% returned to the United States.<sup>2</sup>
75: ... United States, a large number of black refugees enlisted in the Union Army and, while some later retu...
147: ...road: A Visitor's Guide to More Than 300 Sites''. Citadel Press. ISBN 0806520930. - Acropolis (1763 bytes)
4: ...ly a hill with precipitous sides, and these early citadels became in many parts of the world the nuclei of ...
6: ...orinth]]), may be applied generically to all such citadels ([[Rome]], [[Jerusalem]], Celtic [[Bratislava]],...
12: ...of the world developed other names for the high [[citadel]] or [[alcazar]], which often reinforced a natura... - Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
9: ...poleis in Greece, the Acropolis of Athens is commonly known as "the Acropolis" without qualification. ...
11: ... cliffs on three sides. It is accessible by foot only to the west, where it is linked by a low ridge t...
16: ...by [[Homer]]. The fortified acropolis served as a citadel for [[Pisistratus]]. In [[510 BC]], when he was d... - Egyptian mythology (14567 bytes)
30: ... temple for Aten. The religious change survived only until the death of Akhenaten's son by a minor wi...
62: ...rs. [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra]] was the only Ptolemaic queen to rule on her own. Egypt was in...
74: ...us [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra]], was the only Ptolemaic queen to rule on her own, after the de...
100: ... the Future Life'' (Library of the Mystic Arts)". Citadel Press. August 1, 1991. ISBN 0806512296 - Indus Valley Civilization (23571 bytes)
9: ... 1,052 cities and settlements have been found, mainly in the general region of the Indus River in Paki...
17: ...Brahmi]] script. Currently this is thought to be unlikely. Among the Indus civilization's mysteries ar...
30: ...ns, which lined the major streets. Houses opened only to inner courtyards and smaller lanes.
32: ...rick platforms, and protective walls. The massive citadels of Indus cities that protected the Harappans fro...
34: ... which may have been a public bath. Although the "Citadels" are walled, it is far from clear that these str... - Konya (2390 bytes)
13: ...wn in Turkey for the [[piety]] of its residents ("Citadel of Islam") and, paradoxically, for the high consu... - Ankara (15129 bytes)
49: ...ny restored traditional Turkish houses inside the citadel area have found new life as restaurants, serving ...
55: ...ur the [[Asclepios]], the God of Medicine. Today only the basement and first floors remain. Situated i...
61: ...Future''': This monument, in Güven Park, Bakanlıklar quarter, was erected in 1935 and bears ...
75: ...pond for rowing), the Botanical Garden, Seğmenler Park, Anayasa Park, Kuğulu Park (famous fo... - Aspendos (1855 bytes)
13: ...lt so that it leaned against the hill where the [[Citadel]] ([[Acropolis]]) stood, while almost all of the ... - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
6: ...lization around [[1100 BC]]. The collapse is commonly attributed to the [[Dorian invasion]], though so...
17: ...of the Mycenean decorated pottery on the Greek mainland date to the beginning of the Late [[Bronze Age...
20: ...the [[Late Helladic]] phases (LH) on the Greek Mainland.
45: The description of the '''LHIIA''' is mainly based on the material from Kourakou East Alley. ...
51: ...definition of the '''LHIIIB''' by Furumark was mainly based on grave finds and the settlement material... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
11: ...t. The decipherment in the 1950s of [[Linear B]] unlocked the meaning of this script, but an earlier s...
15: ...he goldsmiths' and painters' work of the Greek mainland ([[Mycenae]], [[Vaphio]], [[Tiryns]]).
29: In the absence of written records, only a summary history can be derived from monuments ...
67: ...] came into use early in this Minoan period, but only a few documents made of durable material have su...
69: ...illed both these ends: [[Zakro]] must have had mainly a commercial purpose, as the starting-point for ... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...rk: although Hipparchus wrote at least 14 books, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem ...
20: ...pparently mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His fam...
32: ...tributed to [[Kidinnu]]). Apparently Hipparchus only confirmed the validity of the periods he learned...
51: ...ous amount of computation required, this is very unlikely. Rather, Hipparchus would have made a list ...
105: ... days 5 hours 48 min 45 s by only about 6 min). - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...rk: although Hipparchus wrote at least 14 books, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem ...
19: ...pparently mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His fam...
31: ...tributed to [[Kidinnu]]). Apparently Hipparchus only confirmed the validity of the periods he learned...
50: ...ous amount of computation required, this is very unlikely. Rather, Hipparchus would have made a list ...
104: ... days 5 hours 48 min 45 s by only about 6 min). - Madrid (20882 bytes)
6: Madrid is the capital not only of the country but also of the [[Madrid (provinc...
14: ...ater". (whence ''Magerit'', then ''Madrid''). The citadel was conquered in 1085 by [[Alfonso VI of Castile|...
161: ...rgest metro system in [[Western Europe]], second only to London's [[London Underground|Underground]]. ...
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